Wordicide. Even poor and foreign-born words are killed. Look esp at 'chancer', think

[Michael Bailey]

i suppose i should read the context on that, but...
it makes me think of

a) the importance of dinner parties in politics
b) the importance of parties in Pynchon (the house party v begins with
and the sudwest party in a key chapter of same; also the house party
in m&d)

c) did jefferson mean that he encouraged everybody to meet everybody
so that the formation of cliques by the mere chance of sitting near
each other (and then those cliques going on to rule various corners of
the world...) was less inevitable?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> More misc. on 'chance'...in today's NYTimes, Jefferzson is quoted about
> mingling all his political guests at the constant WH dinners, otherwise " we
> have a government by chance rather than by design"...
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Of TRP's 'chance'?  Gotta see how their roots connect if they
>
>
> m.guardiannews.com/books/2012/nov/26/former-oed-editor-deleted-words
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